The new Galaxy Z8 foldables finally beat Galaxy Note10's long-standing pre-order record
Many years ago, the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ set a long-standing pre-order record in South Korea of 1.38 million units. To be fair, this was over a fairly long 11-day pre-order period, but it was still a feat that later Galaxys failed to match.
The new Galaxy Z8 trio has finally surpassed the old master – the new foldable flagships saw 1.44 million pre-orders total, reports Yonhap News. What’s even more impressive is that this was done over a short period – pre-orders ran from Wednesday to Monday.
Let’s rewind the tape and see how past models performed to put this number into context. The Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 set a foldable record of 1.02 million pre-orders, beating the 0.97 million number for their predecessors. The Z Fold6 and Z Flip6 were a low point for the series as pre-orders declined to 0.91 million. Then the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 bounced back with a new foldable record of 1.04 million done in the week spanning July 15-21.
What the Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip8 achieved is an overall record, though, not just for the foldable category.
The Note series was discontinued in 2020, its spot next to the S-series was taken over by the Z foldables. Speaking of, the Galaxy S26 generation set an S-series record of 1.35 million pre-orders earlier this year (this was over 7 days). This could be a turning point in history – it is the first time that the Galaxy foldable flagships have beaten the S-series flagships in terms of pre-orders. For comparison, Galaxy Z7’s 1.04 million pre-orders last year were easily topped by the 1.3 million pre-orders for S25 phones.
The record sales can largely be attributed to the Galaxy Z Fold8, which introduced a new wide foldable form factor to the series – it accounted for a whopping 70% of pre-orders. It was particularly popular with customers in their 30s and younger and with female buyers – these groups accounted for half of Z Fold8 buyers.
The new Galaxy foldable champ, the Galaxy Z Fold8
The Galaxy Z8 trio is off to a strong start in other countries as well – in India, it saw 271,000 pre-orders in 3 days, while the 2025 Z foldables needed 15 days to reach that number.
If you haven’t already, check out our Galaxy Z Fold8 review and our Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra review.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8
| 256GB 12GB RAM | $ 1,546.99 | $ 1,650.00 |
| 512GB 12GB RAM | $ 1,499.00 | £ 1,499.00 |
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra
| 256GB 12GB RAM | $ 1,899.99 | £ 1,398.00 |
| 512GB 12GB RAM | $ 2,099.99 | € 1,830.05 |
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8
| 256GB 12GB RAM | $ 849.95 | £ 769.00 |
| 512GB 12GB RAM | $ 1,282.80 | £ 1,225.95 |
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Reader comments
And with that, we all know the iPhone Fold / iPhone Ultra is going to sell like hot cakes as well :-D But no. Will never buy any types of iPhones ever. I love my Z Fold8 and Android waaaaaay to much to go to a dumbed down and handicapped iPhone ...
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Samsung likely spent 100k to a million to Sony for rights to market their foldables in the recent Spiderman movie. Honor throws insults at Samsung on reddit and depends on forum members to follow their lead in hopes there will be some kind of grass r...
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For 8 years they were producing phones in the wrong aspect ratio. We were screaming for this in the comments but they never takne in account customer reports, so they kept producing the obsolete square thing. Literally all apps are best optimize...
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